Daily Encouragement by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, August 4, 2014
The resolve to accomplish your goals is what counts. If you earnestly put your mind to something, your brain, your body, your environment - everything will start working toward achieving that end.
From The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Monday, August 4, 2014
I spoke out solely because I had long known that the people of Japan would meet with great suffering, and I felt pity for them. Thoughtful persons should therefore realize that I have met these trials for their sake. If they were people who understood their obligations or who were capable of reason, then out of two blows that fall upon me, they would receive one in my stead.
The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 828
Reply to Yasaburo
Written to Saito Yasaburo on August 4, 1277
Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
Monday, August 4, 2014
In Buddhist terms, the great universe and the self - the great macrocosm and the microcosm are one. Since the self and all phenomena are one, all things are interrelated. Termed dependent origination, this teaching explains that all things weave a single whole in which individuals live in relation to all others.
In other words, all beings and phenomena exist or occur because of their relationship with other beings and phenomena, and nothing in either the human or the nonhuman world exists in isolation. All things are mutually related to and interdependent with all other things. They all form a great cosmos maintaining the rhythms of life.
Excerpt from Daisaku Ikeda - A Youthful Diary (22 October 1955) p. 260
It's Saturday; the weekend is already here. People in the Meiji period called Saturday handon, a combination of Japanese and Portuguese meaning to "rest half-a-day." None can resist the tide of the times, no matter how they may try. A life based on the Mystic Law will be in rhythm with the great power of the natural law. In Europe and America , people have both Saturdays and Sundays off. Will Japan someday follow suit?
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